
Here are our picks for the week's best game-related webcomic. Polling after the break; be sure to vote for your favorite!
Dark or Not ... (MNC)
Third Time is a Charm (Extra Life)
010 (Super Effective)
Welcome Back (PVP Online)
How to Make a Gaming Webcomic (Zero Punctuation)
Weather or Not (8-bit Theater)
Restoring Past Glory (Castle Vidcons)
Baddest Company (2P Start)
(What? You say we didn't pick your favorite gaming comic this week? Make sure we and everyone else gets to see it in the comments below.)













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That comic was awesome.
Joystiq I see you included 8-bit theater with the Yahtzee…I see what you guys did there.
"You better answer his question, fat man."
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Some of the rest weren't even jokes let alone funny ones.
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ZP, while pretty funny, isn't a comic, but a video. So, it doesn't count.
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I, of course, voted for Castle Vidcons because it is consistently awesome.
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i like his artstyle tho...
I should know better.
/end sarcasm.
I agree that George Carlin's material was more profound. But they are both funny.
The ZP films are usually genuinely funny. And this week's film was . . . genuinely funny! Imagine! Does he work blue? Occasionally (read: frequently!), but that doesn't make it any less amusing. After all, it isn't the content that makes it funny, it's the delivery. I doubt Dan Rather could get me to laugh at the seven dirty words you can't say on tv the way George Carlin could.
All this makes me look asstastic because of what I said about MNC last week.
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It seems everybit as funny as putting land mines on your warhawk and flying into others.
I loved doing this on UT2004. Manta + Eight Spiders + Kamikaze Rush = A shit load of kills!
Extra life was the stand out for me this week.
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And yes, the winner will be Yahtzee with his unfunny "videos". I don't see why he should be included this week. Is not a comic.
Well, I guess there is people who enjoy curses and bad words jokes.
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I give you that this video =/= WebComic, but the guy its more than curses and bad words! He's clever in the way he put out the videos and random images (even he mocks of himself constantly!).
What The Hell, Man!
Are you sure this didn't have to do anything about his opinion on SSBB?? (I love that game,MGS4, and still find amusing those "reviews").
This is my point... I just don't find funny the humor that require the use of bad words.
Or to say offensive words to people, just like you did.
Sorry, I don't enjoy movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans or videos like Yathzee.
Yahtzee takes things and throws it in a smart and satirical manner, he does not get his humor by throwing out "bad words." He just does says it as naturally as he would be talking. He could do the whole thing without the use of obscene words but it would feel more forced. Someone needs to watch Mister Carlin's work.
And never put him on the same level as the crud that is the "Movies Movies."
I never said that I feel ofended by what Yahtzee says. Is my personal opinion, and my personal tastes. I don't like obscene and bad words.
What I don't like if for example Atr, caling me stupid and I don't even said anything to him or to anyone.
(ok, atleast now I got my answer ¬¬)
I don't understand how you're expecting to get a point across when none of what you're saying fits in context.
Yahtzee's humor clearly doesn't come from his use of oopsie-naughty language like you say, and if you really do think that then you must be utterly dense.
Then you throw "Sorry, I don't enjoy movies like Scary Movie, Meet the Spartans or videos like Yathzee..." into your argument. Can you read over that a few more times, please? I'm reading it as a sad attempt to strengthen your "point" by comparing Yahtzee's videos to completely unrelated movies that you know people hate.
You iz made of fail, lololol.
Compared to what George Carlin did, Yahtzee is elementary at best. All they're doing is speaking truth to power. But that is what nearly EVERY comedian/funny man has done since Carlin (not to detract from Lenny Bruce, but it didn't take off until Carlin and Pryor came on to the scene).
If you wanted to boil down Yahtzee's gimmick, it would basically be:
• Say something truthful about game
• Say something 'dirty' and out of left field
"The controls are bloody fucking awful. A dog with flaming diarrhea dragging it's ass across the carpet has more accuracy than this shit."
There is absolutely nothing intelligent or truly insightful, however, in anything he ever says that you couldn't find from 'trolls' on any message board.
Basically, the humor is Zero Punctuation is more Family Guy and less Futurama.
There's nothing wrong with Family Guy's humor. But it's very In Your Face...there's no subtlety to it. There's nothing wrong with ZP's humor either, but please – let's NOT pretend that it's some great intellectual comedy.
Nor do I very much find it as some type of intellectual humor. It's just presented smarter than a lot of other video game humor around. It certainly is not intellectual when compared to Carlin, certainly not, but on the comparison to say...Dane Cook, it most certainly is.
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And besides, Castle Vidcons was clearly MOST awesome.
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--- Oh,IIiiirony!(8)
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Please note, just a bit of fun, do NOT take seriously :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_LLjMT4-Yc
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